Word: songful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CRAZY OVER HORSES, by Sam Toperoff. "Horses, horses, horses, crazy over horses," the old song goes. Less repetitive but equally obsessed, the author has transformed a lifelong weakness for the ponies into an oddly winning novel-memoir...
...song goes on, machines are doing all of man's work for him by 5555. artificial insemination is common place by 6565, and a thousand years later God is thinking maybe it's time for Judgment...
...other hand, only a black Protestant(the phrase, dating back before the '54 desegregation decision refers to one's soul, not his race), only one of their kind could quibble with the show's numerous song and dance numbers. If this review were to mention all the good ones, it would end up becoming a Rabelaisian shopping list. Terrence Currier--who too often seemed to underplay his being the play's resident skeptic--unleashes a good, old-fashioned tenor. Ted D'Arms as Monsewer, an English anglophobe (a part almost too small for the amount of good things he puts...
Sprayed-On Trousers. Jones' manager, Gordon Mills, has a one-word explanation for the fuss: "Sex." That is accurate enough-and the effect is carefully calculated. When Jones growls through a song in a black, bluesy style, the emotion seems to come more from the throat than the heart. The throat itself is a bit suspect: his keening, virile baritone has an alarming tendency to wobble. What seems to matter to female spectators is the way he writhes to a funky beat, tears off his tie, slashes the air rhythmically with both arms and strains his pelvis and thigh...
...youth, he chose instead to crowbar his way into movies, drink with the boys and fight in the streets. That was a far cry from his younger days when his mother would take him to the women's guild or the grocery store to warble popular songs like Ghost Riders in the Sky. Tom had to answer for every song to the fellows in the back alley-usually with fists...